> Hello Thomas, Hi,
> I am curious about your test. > > I am assuming that you built kernel-2.4.4 under 2.2.19 and 2.4.4?? Yes, this is correct. I build kernel-2.4.4 with the same .config and after doing a full make dep ; make clean cycle - obviously, in order to give the exact same thing to build. > Why did you use -j4 instead of -j2 on a dual processor box?? This is my personal historical preference. Creating four parallel jobs ensures, that there is at least one extra job scheduled for execution for each CPU. Since make -j<something> creates jobs after one being finished and the limit of concurrent jobs is below the -j parameter, using 4 instead of 2 interleaves the times make needs to determine weather it should create another job or not. In practice, if found, the the variance between several runs of the same make-based buildprocess is smaller, if you exceed the number of CPU's by the number of concurrent jobs created via -j. Obviously, it isn't any faster in reality. Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Weyergraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Favorite IA64 Opcode-guess ( see arch/ia64/lib/memset.S ) "br.ret.spnt.few" - got back from getting beer, did not spend a lot.
